Hey guys,
Right i have a MAJOR problem,
Smashed my LCD screen the other day (Yes im super pissed off),
The phone boots but the screen wont display a thing,
Luckily i have Accidental cover on my phone warranrty,
BUT i flashed a custom ROM or few haha,
Anyway, I need to get my phone back to stock, Not an easy task >"<...
I think i managed to flash Gingerbread 2.3.6 back on the phone,
But im getting bootloops (I was coming from an AOKP ROM)
So i need to go into recovery and wipe cache/partition but i cant see a damn thing,
Can someone on stock type kernel please check for me,
Once in recovery,
Do i press down TWO times to get to wipe data/factory reset,
Then on the next screen press up FOUR times, so that i get to YES,
Then after that it will automatically go to the main screen and i just press the power button to "reboot" unit right?
PLEASE HELP!
After this i need to use my friends JIG to reset the binary counter, I hope this wont be so hard >"<
Please help me guys
Use ADB, that way you can see what you're doing on your PC. Search for tutorials how to use it on here/Google.
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Before I get flamed or eaten up by people who I have so inconvenienced their day by creating a question that has been asked before, I have searched for this.
On the site, and on Google itself for a solution to my problem. So please bare with me and help me out, if you can.
I own an Optimus V. The phone is rooted, but it has no custom ROM installed onto it at all. I had the CM ROM manager, but that was it.
I wanted to factory reset my phone because I was having texting issues, so first thought to mind, lemme just go ahead and reset it. #stupid
Now, the LG logo flashes, fades away and then I am stuck at a black screen (the LCD is still on) and it doesn't go away. I have tried holding home button + volume down + lock button, and home button + volume up + lock button, and even when I press the camera button it occasionally turns on and off. All of the threads here about this issue are all from phones that had custom ROMs flashed onto them, and are all about getting the recovery onto the SD card and installing your ROM off the card.
I don't want that. I just want my phone to turn on again after its reset...
Please help
Also, some information I may have been missing:
The phone is rooted with Gingerbreak 1.2.
If this means anything, I received a replacement phone after September first due to a past issue, so I'm not sure if it has the newer screen or not. Also, I might have put recovery from Clockwork Mod. I'm not sure though, but as stated before, I have not installed any custom ROMs on to this phone.
I factory reset this phone a few months ago while rooted with the same options (although I didn't have the CM ROM manager...).
In other words, as far as I know, I probably did put recovery from Clockwork Mod. I really don't want to go out and buy a new phone
If your phone is just rooted and you do a factory reset it shouldn't hurt the phone at all, If your phone is rooted and have clock work mod installed and did a factory reset it shouldn't hurt the phone at all, when you do a factory reset to a phone all it is doing is erasing info, apps, contacts etc...its not deleting or restoring system files. Now you say that you did a factory reset and now there's a black screen and you can not go into clock work mod (cwm)? did you have cwm flashed from rom manager? I do not understand what you mean "I had the CM ROM manager, but that was it" Do you mean you had clock work mod or just rom manger? Sounds to me like you didn't have clock work mod on your phone at all, when you root your phone flash clock work mod, it can save alot of headaches, if you had cwm you could of just flashed a new custom rom. If you have a warranty for that phone just take it back and tell them it doesn't work and your having problems. I have taken my phone back a couple times at radio shack and it was soft brick and they didn't even notice. Sounds to me like its just a faulty phone that you bought (its normal it happens) nothing that you did at all, hope this helps
ErkelMan said:
I wanted to factory reset my phone because I was having texting issues, so first thought to mind, lemme just go ahead and reset it.
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First of all: How did you "factory reset" your phone? And sorry to ask, but how can it be that you do not know if you have custom recovery or not? As far as I know the only way to factory reset the phone is to enter the custom recovery and choose the corresponding option, or to start the stock LG recovery which would do this automatically. So how can you not know after having reset which recovery did it?
Anyway, since you are stuck now, there seems no other possibility than unbricking your phone using kdz (please search in the sticky section) or getting it to service.
I assume he ment Factory reset from the options in the phone...settings/privacy/factory reset
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Android311 said:
I assume he ment Factory reset from the options in the phone...settings/privacy/factory reset
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O.k. ... in my (german) P500 this option - which I was not aware of until now - would have to be translated to "reset memory/storage", but not "factory reset" which I only knew from custom recovery. Anyway, in my opinion this should not be capable of bricking a device, because all it should do is delete the /data partition.
And even more it should under no circumstances be capable of corrupting the recovery partition... therefore I can only repeat my previous suggestions (assuming that accessing recovery is not working):
1) Try unbricking using kdz; or
2) Go to LG service.
Considering the description of the thread starter I would believe that the hardware is defective.
One other thing to the thread starter: What do you mean by "lock" button? The power button? The combo for accessing recovery is holding home+vol- and then pressing power until recovery starts. And what do you mean by "camera" button??? There is no such button on my P500 at least... And what does it mean when you say the device starts when pressing this "camera" button?
Mine says factory data reset, that's what I'm trying to understand why and how it bricked
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I am on Cyanogen Mod 7 with my Vibrant and was attempting last night to do a factory data reset on my phone through the menu screen. The phone didn't seem to like me attempting to do that and now every time I boot, no matter which button combination I try I can never get past the black Samsung Vibrant boot-up splash screen.
Is there anything I can do to reset my phone somehow? I've searched the forums and google and can't find anyone with quite my same problem.
Thanks for any help that can be offered,
Brian
Hi Brian,
Since you factory reset the phone, then you don't care about your data at this point? If that is the case, then just boot back into recovery with the appropriate key combos and reflash CM7. You might have to do it twice and don't forget to wipe while you are in there.
See here for Key Combos and another user's CM issue.
I have tried both methods (Froyo and Gingerbread bootloaders) and neither return me back into recovery. If I try the gingerbread method I just reset back to the Samsung screen every 10 seconds or so. If I try the Froyo method, nothing actually happens, it just stays there at the Samung Screen and does nothing.
You are correct in that I don't care about my data at this point.
Thanks,
Brian
Could always try Odin.
Make sure you have ODIN OPEN with admin privileges!
1.) Take off your back cover, remove your sim & mirco sd card.
2.) Remove your battery.
Make sure you have the USB plugged into your PC but NOT your phone!
3.) Hold the volume buttons.
4.) Put the battery in.
5.) Put the USB in.
You don't necessarily need the download mode image to be present. As long as you are getting the COM ID to light up yellow in ODIN, just flash back to stock like normal.
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Then reinstall CM from scratch. Gotta go for now but I'll check in later on.
Got it up and running late last night. Thanks so much for your help. Was never quite sure what ODIN was but now that I see how it works, it makes sense that it's the fallback plan for people that have done dumb things to their phone like I did.
Thanks again,
Brian
Yep. Odin has saved my bacon more times than I can count.
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Hi folks,
I'm trying to revive my wife's water damaged Galaxy s2 i9100.
After it's trip into the toilet and then some drying out the only function that seemed to stop working was the mobile reception, so we couldn't make phone calls. After some reading I decided to try bathing it in 99% ISOPROPANOL.
Unfortunately this seems to have removed the operating system from the phone (not sure how else to describe it) We've still got the drag down menu, but nothing else (see attached photos)
I've done some searching on here to see if there might be a fix to at least get me back to where I was so I could use it on WIFI and for music, but I'm struggling to know what to search for.
Can anyone point me in the right direction? Or offer any solutions?
thanks in advance
Andy
What ROM are you on? 4.0.4 right?
BTW You didn't use a hair dryer, did you?
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Try to leave the phone for some time in a jar full of rice. Many reported that rice absorbs wet from the phone.
Alcohol evaporates faster than water.
This is about software, seen it before.
At least let's hope for.
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Changing the ROM Can Help
billythestickboy said:
Hi folks,
I'm trying to revive my wife's water damaged Galaxy s2 i9100.
After it's trip into the toilet and then some drying out the only function that seemed to stop working was the mobile reception, so we couldn't make phone calls. After some reading I decided to try bathing it in 99% ISOPROPANOL.
Unfortunately this seems to have removed the operating system from the phone (not sure how else to describe it) We've still got the drag down menu, but nothing else (see attached photos)
I've done some searching on here to see if there might be a fix to at least get me back to where I was so I could use it on WIFI and for music, but I'm struggling to know what to search for.
Can anyone point me in the right direction? Or offer any solutions?
thanks in advance
Andy
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Hey billy
I guess its better you install a new latest ROM... as your a newbie i'll write down the instructions for you
Read the Intro & Download ODIN
http://www.andromint.com/download-odin-latest-version/
Download the latest firmware (4.1.2) of your region from SamMobile
http://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/1/
INSTRUCTIONS:
1. Extract the odin file from the zip (DON'T BOTHER THE 2 PIT FILES INSIDE)
2. Put your device in download mode. To do so, press vol- down while pressing the power button and the home button.... you will see a different screen with a picture of an android... press volume- up to continue. Connect your phone to the pc
3. Open odin
4. You should see a yellow rectangle with COM:xx and saying ready. It means that your device is ready to be flashed!
5. Extract the files from the downloaded ROM
6. Go into the PDA section and take your .tar file which you have just extracted.
7. ensure that re-partition at the left is UNCHECKED!!
8. Press the flash button
9. When it's finished, it should say that it's done with a green box and your device should reboot by itself
Let me know if there is any doubts or clarifications
Regards
Hi, thanks for the replies so far.
Not sure what ROM it was on and can't check that now, but it was ICS so possibly 4.0.4. I have tried to flash 4.1.2 on there already but that didn't seem to make any difference. I've managed to successfully root and flash my own S2 (using the very helpful guides on here) so fairly confident I have followed the steps correctly.
ODIN recognised the phone and once flashed I got the green box and it said PASS rather than FAIL.
No hairdryer used, but unfortunately my wife did try to turn it on before drying it out properly. We tried the rice trick first, then the alcohol once that didn't work.
Really impressed how helpful people are on here, so thanks very much for taking an interest!
So after you have flashed and passed what happens? Does it boot up. Do you have recovery? What is working on 4.1.2 ?
Yes, it boots, but then all I get with 4.1.2 is the blank screen with the top line of icons and the drag down menu.
Yes, I can get it into recovery mode or download mode
Mb replacement mate. Phone hardware is stuffed edit does recovery work like it should?
flash jb leak.
You can find it using search.
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Do you think that will work?
If it does, beer time.
if it doesn't, well, water does that.
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Hope for op it works. :thumbup:
Thanks again for your help folks, I'll give that a go over the weekend.
gastonw, is this the one for JB Leak (XXLSJ)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1995767
You got it Billy.
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Hi,
Ok, I've just tried that one and it's put it into a bootloop.
Is there anything else I could try? Or is it time to give in?
Now factory reset and wipe cache and dalv cache if davl ent there dont worry wipe other too and reboot. Do wipes in recovery:thumbup: great news its bootlooping sort of
That's right, a bootloop is not a bad thing.
Do a couple of wipes and tell us if the homescreen is back.
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wow, ok
So, I've just selected both the wipe options in recovery "wipe data/factory reset" and "wipe cache partition"
The only other options I get in recovery are "reboot system now", "applu update from ADB", "apply update from external storage" and "apply update from cache" so I haven't done anything with those
Is it important that I get "E:Failed to mount / efs (Invalid argument)" when i do wipe data?
It still says Data wipe complete.
There's no dalv cache showing in recovery for me
Having done that, I get PASS (4:3) in odin, but then it's still in boot loop
Don't go bk to Odin ATM . Dalv missing means you have stock recovery so that's OK. Did you factory wipe a couple of times?
So install ROM with Odin
Goto recovery and do the wipes then reboot. No Odin involved just recovery. What firmware did you install BTW? 4.1.2 ?
My phone (Galaxy S2 i9100) is blocked. I don't know the screen unlock code and at the same time my power button is not working due to water damage. So I cant use the phone.
I attempted to fix the power button/board first with some isopropol treatment but that didn't fix the problem. I then bough a jig from ebay and managed to get into download mode. I flashed a stock rom onto it thinking this would solve the problem, but it rebooted nicely and gave me the same lock screen (and I dont have the password).
I've been trying everything to get this phone restored, but obviously since I dont have access to the software and I cant use the power button to get into recovery mode, I am a bit stuck.
My ideas here are:
- re-partition with odin if I can find the PIT file., would this work?
- find another way to get into recovery mode. (I considered ADK developer tools, but USB debuggin isnt enabled)
- flash another custom rom to override this, would that work/where would I find such a rom?? (cyanogen doesnt have md5 files?)
PLEASE help, I wanted to give this phone to my mom as she needs one, but I am not seeing the light at the end of the tunnel.
Try to open your phone. I mean open the screws at the back part of your phone, then remove the triggers for the buttons. after you remove the triggers. click the buttons many times. then bring back the triggers, and re-assemble it again. And the buttons may/can work again. I also have this kind of issue before. But I did this thing at my own risk.
Just try this thing man, I mean just try or do it at your own risk.
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Try to open your phone. I mean open the screws at the back part of your phone, then remove the triggers for the buttons. after you remove the triggers. click the buttons many times. then bring back the triggers, and re-assemble it again. And the buttons may/can work again. I also have this kind of issue before. But I did this thing at my own risk.
Just try this thing man, I mean just try or do it at your own risk.
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Thank you for your reply. I cant detach the buttons but I got the phone to work ). I still need to replace the power button though.
What I did was I flashed it over and over, I found a PIT file and flashed it, nothing happened. then SOMEHOW it gave me a start screen without the pin lock (as when flashing a new rom). I dont know how this happened, but I think it was a software error. I quickly went through the phone, doing all I could to reset it and remove all pins and passwords and enabling USB debugging, but it wouldn't let me change the pin without entering the old pin. So I downloaded quick boot, hoping to be able to reset into recovery, but I couldnt use that either, because I had lost root access by flashing a stock rom, lol. Long story short, as I was searching for answer, the phone screen timed out and locked on me again, I thought I was going to be sick. I tried rebooting it and it got into a boot loop (you can't make this up)
I then remembered that the one good thing I had done was to enable USB debugging, so the hacking began... .....I rebooted into recovery mode and couldnt do ANYTHING without the power button, lmao... It was like seeing the light at the end of the tunnel and then realizing that it was covered with steel bars. ..BUT... after educating myself and hacking a bit more, I was able to unlock the phone by using the "remove password key" command in adb. It only took me 20 hours of frustration and lots and lots of coffee and sweets. :victory: I hope my mom appreciates it .
Hi guys, sorry if I posted this at the wrong place.
I have a Lenovo s860 and it went into a bootloop. It was stock and all so I thought that I can have my files recovered if I just bring it to a service center so they can get the files first before wiping it or maybe even fixing the bootloop without wiping the device. Well, the thing is, the guy at the service center screwed up and now, when I try to turn it on, I still see the boot screen (Lenovo, powered by Android) but the next screen is like an television with bad signal.
I'm familiar with rooting and flashing ROMs, I've tried it on my Galaxy S2 (yeah I know, it was way back), but I think things are still more or less the same: I need to be able to boot into recovery mode in order to root the device. However, when I tried the Power Button + Volume Up, or any combinations of the Power Button and the Volume Buttons, it just goes straight to the dead screen, I get no response whatsoever.
I also tried to check if adb can detect it, however, it didn't seem to be able to do so. I'm using a MacBook Pro so I know I don't have to install any drivers, I also code Android Apps so I have a background on this.
I think my only option would be to flash the ROM on this dead device but I don't know how to do that. I've also seen some posts that suggest doing some things (I forgot the specifics) while the battery is drained, so what I'm doing for the mean time is to leave the phone open and let it drain which might take ~2 days.
Does anyone know how to flash a ROM on a bricked device? Thanks for any leads.